Here the ping is definitely ok, always 20+ for me.

Checking in, started playing about 2 months back coming from Dota. Still getting to know the champions, level 23-24 now. No ranked for me yet.

Oh, my mistake! I thought it was gayrena. I play SEA.
Bots really have improved AI with the latest patch, they tower dived me!

It's the same. Just in case, I'll stick to using NA and SEA terminology.

No gold penalty for death. Unless you count all the farm opportunities missed haha. Slightly faster respawn time.

Think bots will always be a 'test new hero' playground. At least it is for me.

Jax free week in SEA.
He's just so fun to play, bait and troll with!

Yea, but I just love baiting with Jax too much. Plus I usually play with a friend and he is addicted to jungling, and very good at it.
I usually solo top and the opponents usually put 2 against me (It's normal game, not ranked). Adrenaline rush when I nail the bait and get comments like "WTF, Jax 1v2 FB...".

What type of item build do you normally go with Jax?

I find the new Jax much more glassy than the old one. No doubt, he needs to be in melee range to deal damage and his dodge now works for all of 2 secs. Personaly, after Rageblade I go for a Frozen Mallet and a Phage component (Triforce) for the HP. I find it really helps my survivability in teamfights or I get focused down way too quickly.

Haha, coz it's Morde and his gay shield.

I take Flash + Exhaust, head top.

1. When my life is half, hug tower. Calculate what nukes they have and gap closers. Do see if they have ignite or flash. Make sure you have enough HP to survive their nuke burst if they dive.
2. They tower dive me and nuke me, normally to 1 to 1 and a half bar.
3. Activate Counterstrike! They already used their nukes and they WILL hit you as you are a couple of hits from die-ing. Counterstrike activated means you now dodge everything.
4. Watch which champion the tower is shooting. Dump Q > W on him and Exhaust!
5. If the other champion doesn't have Flash, Flash away back to base. Otherwise, flash to the otherside of tower to play roundabout.
6. First champion will usually die, as even if he has Flash the range is too short to get out of tower range and he has Exhaust on him. If the 2nd champion has flash and you are playing roundabout, pray he has a longer CD on his nukes and keep running around tower.
7. Profit!

This post has been edited by statikinetic: Feb 8 2012, 01:14 PM

Curious about MMR.

I'm only lvl 24 but my past 10 games have been leaver free, always a jungler on both teams, coordinated pushes, wards and counter warding and were really really balanced. I was like....where the f*** are all the noobs?

Started wondering about the system when one team is all lvl 30s and the other is all lvl 10-28. But I must admit it was quite balanced.

A lot of viets lately. Nothing against them, I think a communication gap exists between them and the rest as they communicate exclusively in vietnamese. I once asked for a leash on Blue and had my hopes up when the guy responded, but he killed my blue and went back to mid lane.

Do you guys in LYN have your own chat room in LoL or something?

I think Ziggs is pretty balanced as it is.

He's an out and out skillshot hero, so he'll look a bit OP when played by someone who is awesome at skillshots. Great poke and AoE, but lacks CC and escape mechanism. Sure, you can try use his Satchel but again that requires some skill to pull off.

Like any AP nuker, starve him of blue buff and he becomes more manageable. I find Ziggs excels at protracted standoffs, where both teams are eye-ing each other and not engaging. His poke is ridiculous at times, but it's no different than other heroes like Cass with similar pokes. I had the misfortune of playing against a Ziggs and Cass during a standoff, and it wasn't pretty. The longer you hold off, the more damage your team takes.

A hero I'm starting to like is Leona. But she doesn't scale well late game at all and just falls off the barrel post lvl 18. And she's slow. Like in everything from walking to attack animation. Note I didn't say attack speed, it's animation. Fun to play, but unless she gets a minor buff probably won't be on the high ELO champ tank list.

Leona doesn't really work on higher ELOs currently because there are better options like Alistar as you said. The current problem Leona has is mainly why play her when there are better options like Rammus, Alistar and Amumu. Gold/10 sec items are a definite, but her AA animation has to be experienced to be believed.

Jarvan I mostly see solo top. But I've tried Leona and support Lux bottom. Was a pretty amazing combo. You're pretty much dead if Leona gets her lock on you.

Leona's R isn't easy to pull off. The AoE is incredibly small. Now I ain't speaking about the damage, but the stun effect as that ability is going to be primarily used for the stun. And the stun area is small. The larger slow area doesn't matter as nobody should run in a team fight at the beginning. And..it has a 1.5 sec delay time. I'd scream for joy if I catch 3 champions in the stun area.



Psst, you can give AP champs attack speed too. I wanna see a Veigar stacking Phantom Dancers lolz.

CC Champs.
Amumu or Galio's Flash + Ult is pretty frickin broken.

Level 30 or level 1 doesn't matter for normal games. They could just be trolling or letting their 5 yr old brother play that account. I just love people who at Champ Selection instalocks popular AD Carries then tell the rest to pick tanks and all. Then calls their teammates noobs when the team loses for not following his picks.

Those players always have this response :

Team wins, teammates willingly take support and tank roles
"Hah, lucky my team got me. I carry my team alone! I am so pro."

Team wins, teammates didn't willingly take support or tank roles
"Lucky I pro, carry noob team."

Team loses.
"My teammates all noobs. Dunno how chose champions. Always feed. I always need to save them from dying so I die a lot for the team."

Being a tank is a very team role coz :

1 - If your team ends up winning, the carries take all the glory and say they carry the team.
2 - Your kill/death ratio in competitive play is ugly.
3 - If all goes well, you are the first to die. If you aren't, you probably haven't done your job.
4 - If you time your intiation or position yourself wrongly, your whole team dies. And you are to blame.
5 - If you could probably die saving your carry, you should.

Any noob can farm to late game with a carry and own. It's probably the tanks that made it possible.

Sounds like an AD Leona build. Tried it before with hope in my heart but alas, it wasn't to be. Her low scaling throughout the game makes this build totally ineffective in my humble opinion. Ineffective in that it isn't cost effective. I went a full item build and a Garen/Tryn/GP with Atmogs and half my total item cost can still own me.

I do tend to notice games go down the toilet bowl the later you play, like 3 am haha.

Yea, but the majority of players who play AD carry here can't even spare 75 gold for wards....much less QSS. And their summoner spells are always Flash + Ignite/Exhaust. And when they get caught by the Flash + Ult combo they blame the team for not protecting them.

Wooo, next patch Shen getting buffed. Soraka and Sona getting a nerf.

Where's my Leona buff Riot??!!

At least he tries?

The worst players I've seen are those who become disruptive if you don't give them mid or something. Go bottom when there are already 2 champions there and try to last hit all the AD carry creeps, declare in All Chat where the team is, etc.

Does Ignite affect life steal?

On another note, based on your gameplay, what champions do you think are in need of a buff based on their role?

My thought on several :

Evelynn - Bottom of the barrel. Fun when your roflstomping pubs, but queue dodge material in proper games.

Teemo - Needs a little something to promote his team fight capabilities.

Leona - Almost there as a tank. But fails in the primary role of a tnak, draw fire. While her kit revovles around CCs, she has nothing to draw fire to herself. And she doesn't represent a significant threat level to make the other team want to focus her. All too ignored in higher level play, it's ridiculous to see the opposing champions totally dive past her and she flails her low dmg AA at the squishies and they ignore her too. Maybe her AA applying the Sunlight debuff for her allies to consume might be an option.

Akali - Oh yes, Akali. With the Shen epic buff, she's now the weakest ninja. Nerfs to her, and indirect nerfs to her core items like Gunblade affected her sustain. As of now, other champions perform the assassin role better.



This post has been edited by statikinetic: Feb 16 2012, 11:04 AM